Psycholinguistics, a field of linguistics that studies language primarily as a phenomenon of the psyche. From the point of view of psycholinguistics, language exists to the extent that there is an inner world of the speaker and the listener, writing and reading. Therefore, psycholinguistics does not study "dead" languages - such as Old Slavonic or Greek, where only texts are available to us, but not the psychic worlds of their creators. Psycholinguistics should not be regarded as partly

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... ics and partly psychology. This is a complex science that relates to linguistic disciplines, since it studies language, and to psychological disciplines, since it studies it in a certain aspect - as a mental phenomenon. And since language is a sign system serving society, psycholinguistics is also included in the range of disciplines studying social communication, including the design and transfer of knowledge.